The first thing to pay attention to when buying chocolate is to confirm whether it is cocoa butter chocolate. Because of the national mandatory regulations, chocolate products with cocoa butter content more than 5% must be marked on the packaging. We can also check the standard code of the chocolate product (the product standard code can be found in the detailed information of the product on the package) if the businessmen play tricks to do tricks on the packaging. If the standard code of the chocolate product starts with GB, it is made of pure cocoa butter; if it starts with sb, it is made of high cocoa butter.
After determining whether chocolate is a cocoa butter substitute, we need to look at the ingredients of the product. In the ingredient list, we can learn the following information:
1. This chocolate product belongs to dark chocolate, white chocolate or milk chocolate.
2. How much sugar does this chocolate product contain. In the ingredients list of food packaging, the ingredients are sorted according to the content. The first ingredient in many chocolates is white granulated sugar, which means that there is more sugar in this chocolate than cocoa powder, and the cocoa powder content in this chocolate is less than 50%. So this chocolate is a kind of food with high energy and low health care effect.
3. Does this chocolate contain cocoa butter. If we can't find the information about cocoa butter substitute on the product name and package, we can also find the trace of cocoa butter substitute in the ingredient list. If modern cocoa butter, hydrogenated vegetable oil, vegetable oil, palm oil, coconut oil and other ingredients are listed in the ingredients list, this chocolate product contains cocoa butter substitute ingredients.